Motorola ROKR EM30 is 22nd LiMo phone: Linux World San Francisco
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At the Linux World Expo in San Francisco today, LiMo foundation executive director Morgan Gillis, announced that Motorola’s new ROKR EM30 is powerd by LiMo technologies. This takes the no. of LiMo phones up to 22. 7 other handsets were announced yesterday from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications.
The mobile platform wars have been heating up with explosive growth in the mobile devices market. According to Strategy Analytics, an international research and consulting firm, 297 million cellphones were shipped worldwide in Q2 2008, up 15% year-over-year.
Among the non linux mobile platforms, Apple has it’s own closed solution which is only available on the iPhone. Nokia recently acquired Symbian and created the Symbian foundation and opened the Symbian OS royalty fre
e to members.
The Linux Mobile platform war is currently split between the LiMo foundation and Google’s Android ( A third Linux Mobile consortium, LiPS, just folded into LiMo. ) with LiMo clearly in the lead with several heavyweight backers and several phones already using LiMo Technologies. Google’s android was rumored to be delayed and the company is yet to announce a phone based on Android.
The new Motorola ROKR EM30 becomes the 22nd handset model available using the LiMo Platform(TM), the collaboratively developed, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
The ROKR EM30 is a GSM quad-band phone that supports global roaming and offers an exciting set of compelling music features. The ROKR EM30 is expected to launch first in Taiwan then in other markets throughout the quarter. Building upon the success of the ROKR E8, the EM30 is targeted for mass-market consumers worldwide and includes improved features including an LCD display, easier D-pad navigation and built-in GPS functionality to enable an array of location-based service.
